Isaiah 1:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² Hear, O heavens, and listen, O earth, for the Lord has spoken: I reared children and brought them up, but they have rebelled against me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth: for the LORD hath spoken, I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth! For the Lord has spoken: I have nourished and brought up sons and have made them great and exalted, but they have rebelled against Me and broken away from Me.

American Standard Version (1901)

² Hear, O heavens, and give ear, O earth; for Jehovah hath spoken: I have nourished and brought up children, and they have rebelled against me.

Common English Bible

² Hear you heavens, and listen earth, for the LORD has spoken: I reared children; I raised them, and they turned against me!

Catholic Public Domain Version

² Listen, O heavens, and pay attention, O earth, for the Lord has spoken. I have nurtured and raised children, but they have spurned me.

Isaiah 1:2 Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:1

“Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak; let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

Deuteronomy 30:19

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Choose life so that you and your descendants may live,

Micah 1:2

Hear, you peoples, all of you; listen, O earth, and all that is in it, and let the Lord God be a witness against you, the Lord from his holy temple.

Deuteronomy 4:26

I call heaven and earth to witness against you today that you will soon utterly perish from the land that you are crossing the Jordan to occupy; you will not live long on it but will be utterly destroyed.

Psalm 50:4

He calls to the heavens above and to the earth, that he may judge his people:

Malachi 1:6

A son honors his father and a servant his master. If then I am a father, where is the honor due me? And if I am a master, where is the respect due me? says the Lord of hosts to you, O priests, who despise my name. You say, “How have we despised your name?”

Micah 3:8

But as for me, I am filled with power, with the spirit of the Lord, and with justice and might, to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sin.

Amos 3:1

Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:

Ezekiel 36:4

therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God: Thus says the Lord God to the mountains and the hills, the watercourses and the valleys, the desolate wastes and the deserted towns, which have become a source of plunder and an object of derision to the rest of the nations all around;

Jeremiah 22:29

O land, land, land, hear the word of the Lord!

Jeremiah 6:19

Hear, O earth; I am going to bring disaster on this people, the fruit of their schemes, because they have not given heed to my words, and as for my teaching, they have rejected it.

Isaiah 65:2

I held out my hands all day long to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, following their own devices;

Isaiah 30:9

For they are a rebellious people, faithless children, children who will not hear the instruction of the Lord;

Isaiah 30:1

Woe to the rebellious children, says the Lord, who carry out a plan but not mine; who make an alliance but against my will, adding sin to sin;

Jeremiah 31:9

With weeping they shall come, and with consolations I will lead them back; I will let them walk by brooks of water, in a straight path where they shall not stumble, for I have become a father to Israel, and Ephraim is my firstborn.

Jeremiah 13:15

Hear and give ear; do not be haughty, for the Lord has spoken.

Deuteronomy 1:31

and in the wilderness, where you saw how the Lord your God carried you, just as one carries a child, all the way that you traveled until you reached this place.

Acts 4:20

for we cannot keep from speaking about what we have seen and heard.”

Psalm 49:1

Hear this, all you peoples; give ear, all inhabitants of the world,

Isaiah 31:6

Turn back to him whom you have deeply betrayed, O people of Israel.

Isaiah 34:1

Draw near, O nations, to hear; O peoples, give heed! Let the earth hear and all that fills it, the world and all that comes from it.

Isaiah 63:16

For you are our father, though Abraham does not know us and Israel does not acknowledge us; you, O Lord, are our father; our Redeemer from of old is your name.

Jeremiah 3:22

Return, O faithless children, I will heal your faithlessness. “Here we come to you, for you are the Lord our God.

Ezekiel 24:3

And utter an allegory to the rebellious house and say to them: Thus says the Lord God: Set on the pot; set it on; pour in water also;

2 Kings 21:22

he abandoned the Lord, the God of his ancestors, and did not walk in the way of the Lord.

Micah 1:1

The word of the Lord that came to Micah of Moresheth in the days of Kings Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.